Distinctive roles of furin and TMPRSS2 in SARS-CoV-2 infectivity

R Essalmani, J Jain, D Susan-Resiga… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… in proS processing at the S1/S2 and S2′ sites, we next evaluated the activity of three
novel nontoxic, cell-permeative furin-like inhibitors developed by Boston Pharmaceuticals and …

Structure of furin protease binding to SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein and implications for potential targets and virulence

N Vankadari - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
… -2 spike protein or any candidate drug that could block Furin activity and impede further
biophysical processes. Furthermore, the allele frequency was also high, suggesting its presence …

TMPRSS2 and furin are both essential for proteolytic activation of SARS-CoV-2 in human airway cells

D Bestle, MR Heindl, H Limburg… - Life science …, 2020 - life-science-alliance.org
… the SARS-CoV-2 S protein is cleaved by endogenous furin in … with pCAGGS plasmid encoding
the SARS-CoV-2 S protein with … antiviral activity of a combination of T-ex5 PPMO and furin

[HTML][HTML] Loss of furin cleavage site attenuates SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis

BA Johnson, X Xie, AL Bailey, B Kalveram… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
… mutant than against parental SARS-CoV-2, probably … furin cleavage site in infection with
SARS-CoV-2 and highlight the importance of this site for evaluating the neutralization activities

[HTML][HTML] A perspective on the applications of furin inhibitors for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2

KP Devi, MR Pourkarim, M Thijssen, A Sureda… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Springer
furin in the entry SARS-CoV-2 into host cells. Furthermore, we evaluate available peptide and
non-peptide furin … This hypothesis implies that the activity of furin is paramount to the virus …

[HTML][HTML] Furin cleavage site is key to SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis

BA Johnson, X Xie, B Kalveram, KG Lokugamage… - BioRxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… to SARS-CoV, a better understanding of the role of the furin cleavage site during SARS-CoV
system to generate a SARS-CoV-2 mutant that lacked the furin cleavage site insertion 14 . …

[HTML][HTML] Furin inhibitors block SARS-CoV-2 spike protein cleavage to suppress virus production and cytopathic effects

YW Cheng, TL Chao, CL Li, MF Chiu, HC Kao… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
SARS-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. This study focuses on host proteases that
proteolytically activate the SARS-CoV… at a putative furin substrate motif at SARS-CoV-2 spikes by …

A second functional furin site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

Y Zhang, L Zhang, J Wu, Y Yu, S Liu, T Li… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
activity of cell–cell fusion [Citation8]. Our results indicate that overexpression of furin can also
increase SARS-CoV … cells, although not as much as in SARS-CoV-2 (about fivefold, Figure …

[HTML][HTML] Furin cleavage of SARS-CoV-2 Spike promotes but is not essential for infection and cell-cell fusion

G Papa, DL Mallery, A Albecka, LG Welch… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… The protease responsible for this activity is thought to be furin but this conclusion is largely
based on experiments using small molecule inhibitors [3,26,36]. Here we show that genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibitory effect of honokiol on furin-like activity and SARS-CoV-2 infection

T Tanikawa, T Hayashi, R Suzuki, M Kitamura… - Journal of traditional and …, 2022 - Elsevier
… (honokiol and magnolol) on furin-like enzymatic activity using a fluorogenic substrate with
… inhibited furin-like enzymatic activity. We further examined the anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity of …